replacement Camshaft

BXrunner · Post by **BXrunner** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 6:21 pm

does anyone know where I can go and buy a new camshaft for the BX19 carb engine

CitroXim · Post by **CitroXim** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 6:59 pm

A scrapyard may be your best bet unless you want to spend a lot in a Citroen dealer

Why do you want a new cam? 1.9s usually wear their cams well, it's the 1.6 that could wear them.

If you do get one from a scrappy, get the followers (buckets) as well and keep them strictly in order. If you opt for new, replace the followers as well. It is never a good idea to run a new cam on old followers or a used cam on another set of used followers.

In any case, you'll have to check and reset the valave clearances...

EDIT: Any of the well-known cam grinders may be able to do one for you as a special although they're centred around the 1.9 GTi cam and these may be a bit too hairy for your application

BXrunner · Post by **BXrunner** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 7:03 pm

citrojim wrote:A scrapyard may be your best bet unless you want to spend a lot in a Citroen dealer

Why do you want a new cam? 1.9s usually wear their cams well, it's the 1.6 that could wear them.

If you do get one from a scrappy, get the followers (buckets) as well and keep them strictly in order. If you opt for new, replace the followers as well. It is never a good idea to run a new cam on old followers or a used cam on another set of used followers.

In any case, you'll have to check and reset the valave clearances...

EDIT: Any of the well-known cam grinders may be able to do one for you as a special although they're centred around the 1.9 GTi cam and these may be a bit too hairy for your application

considered getting an uprated one

jeremy · Post by **jeremy** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 7:08 pm

Lets start with the obvious - have you tried your main dealer?

They generally seem to last well - so a second hand one should be OK

The timing for a 19 TRS (1989) was 3AT-46AB-40BB-2AT and strangely the 16RS - TRS has the same timing but not the RE. The 8 valve GTi is different.

Peugeot 405 carb 1.9's seem the same (timing stated to an additional decimal place.)

Source - Glass's technical info 1989 - very reliable as it stated the TD BX has vacuum servo brakes!

BXrunner · Post by **BXrunner** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 7:15 pm

jeremy wrote:Lets start with the obvious - have you tried your main dealer?

They generally seem to last well - so a second hand one should be OK

The timing for a 19 TRS (1989) was 3AT-46AB-40BB-2AT and strangely the 16RS - TRS has the same timing but not the RE. The 8 valve GTi is different.

Peugeot 405 carb 1.9's seem the same (timing stated to an additional decimal place.)

Source - Glass's technical info 1989 - very reliable as it stated the TD BX has vacuum servo brakes!

Nope haven't tried main dealers guess we could get the used one reprofiled